Coverity points out it's possible for one of the virCommand{Output|Error}* API's to have not allocated 'output' and/or 'error' in which case the strstr comparison will cause a NULL deref Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c index 6394dac..5c2c49a 100644 --- a/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c +++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_disk.c @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ virStorageBackendDiskFindLabel(const char* device) /* if parted succeeds we have a valid partition table */ ret = virCommandRun(cmd, NULL); - if (ret < 0) { + if (ret < 0 && output && error) { if (strstr(output, "unrecognised disk label") || strstr(error, "unrecognised disk label")) { ret = 1; -- 2.1.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list